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July 26, 2019

New Mexico’s Legal & Financial Weekly

Vol. 9.99 No. 30

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How To Never Miss A Day Of Your Medication Most people can’t go a day without a cup of coffee or checking their e-mail. But with the demands of everyday life it’s not surprising that about 50 percent of patients sometimes fail to take their daily medications as prescribed. According to a new survey by WebMD, over the past six months one-third of respondents either sometimes or most of the time missed taking their medication as prescribed even though 76 percent know it can cause their condition to worsen or symptoms to return. When asked why they’d missed a dose, 66 percent of survey respondents said that they forgot, 38 percent said they experienced side effects, and 26 percent weren’t able to get to the pharmacy to refill their prescription on time. “Not following a prescription correctly can seriously impact your health,” said Jamal Downer, a Walgreens pharmacist. “Your local pharmacist is an expert who can help you understand your medications and provide tips on how to use tools like smartphone apps that make it easier and more convenient to stay on track.” Steps to help you take your medications include services online, through apps and in store:

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like a pill reminder can help ensure you always have your medication on hand. • Simplifying your refills: Pharmacists can also coordinate your prescription refills to a single pickup date with the Save a Trip Refills® program for free. Refilling your prescription can be made more convenient by switching to a 90-day supply or setting up automatic refills. • Making refills convenient: Just like you can order purchases online from your phone, you can have refills shipped directly to your home. With Walgreens Express™, patients can prepay and pick up prescriptions in a dedicated line or get their eligible medications delivered.

From pill reminders to tools for conveniently managing • Getting help whenever you need it: A pharmacist is your condition, the answer to improved health and saving an integral part of your support team, and now they are money could be in the palm of your hand. Download the Walgreens app or available anytime via phone. Walgreens Pharmacy Chat service provides 24/7 access to pharmacists who can answer questions to help you better ask your local pharmacist how they can help you stay on track with your understand your medications, including side effects and how the other medications. medicines you take and food you eat may interact with another drug. For further information, go to http://bit.ly/redphone-wakeup. • Setting reminders: Whether you need a quick prompt to take your pill or a text alert that your refill is available, calendar notifications and free tools -(NAPSI)

New Way To Save All Shelter Pets The lives of nearly 733,000 cats and dogs could be saved with the help of need to be saved and find tools to help individual shelters save more pets. caring humans and an innovative Web-based platform introduced this week The organization used independent research, government data and even by Best Friends Animal Society. FOIA requests to create the most comprehensive data set on animal welfare ever published. Envisioned as a tool to help animal lovers help their communities save more pets, the new community lifesaving dashboard combines groundbreaking Best Friends CEO Julie Castle says the investment in data was necessary data visualization technology with the most comprehensive data set on to achieve the organization’s goal of bringing the whole country no-kill by animal welfare ever published. 2025. Two years in the making, the tool crowdsources, validates and translates “Up until two years ago, we didn’t even know how many shelters existed,” complex data about the dogs and cats in U.S. shelters. she said. “How can you possibly save all the animals if you don’t even know how many need to be saved? It brings an unprecedented level of transparency to the animal welfare movement, unlocking new opportunities for saving pets by providing a “With this data in hand, our goal to save every savable pet by 2025 is detailed picture showing precisely—on a city, state and community level— finally within reach,” Castle said. where cats and dogs need to be saved. To explore the community lifesaving dashboard, visit BestFriends. For the first time, anyone with a smartphone or computer will be able to org/2025. easily access his or her community’s snapshot of how many cats and dogs -(NAPSI)


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